δέ-ησις, εως, ἡ,
entreaty, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.15 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.138 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 329d (_plural_), etc.; δέομαι δ᾽ ὑμῶν.. δικαίαν δέησιν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.4; δεήσεις ποιεῖσθαι NT.Luke.5.33, cf. Wilcken “Chr.” 41 ii 12 (3rd c.AD). ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__2 written petition, [[ CPHerm. 6.10, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 7.5.2, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.586, “PGen.” 16.10 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II want, need, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 11; ἐν ἐπιθυμίαις τε καὶ δεήσεσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 405e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὰς δεήσεις according to their needs, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1257a23; δεήσεις εἰσὶν αἱ ὀρέξεις [prev. author] “Rh.” 1385a22. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]